[ExI] Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation

[Giovanni Santostasi]

Hi Christian,
This is an interesting coincidence because I just finished to attend a
session of tDCS at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society conference in
Chicago. This topic is very interesting to me. Most talks indeed talked
about improvement in performance but the improvement is more something like
15-20 % than 100 % that you mentioned.
I'm not aware of any work that demonstrate such huge effect.
Giovanni


On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Christian Vanderwall <
cvanderwall14 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Very cool article about transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)
> and its possible applications and moral consequences written by Sally
> Adee, a woman who has actually tried it.
>
> "they hook you up to what's essentially a 9-volt battery and let the
> current flow through your brain. After a few years of lab testing, they've
> found that tDCS can more than double the rate at which people learn a wide
> range of tasks, such as object recognition, math skills, and marksmanship."
>
>
>
> http://theweek.com/article/index/226196/how-electrical-brain-stimulation-can-change-the-way-we-think/1
>
> -- Christian
>
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